Clemente Curry
Clemente Curry was 37 years old, and his mother had stood with him at a parole hearing with the Equal Justice Initiative less than a year before he died. Early on the morning of August 6, 2015, he was stabbed in a housing unit at Bullock County Correctional Facility in Union Springs, and he died while being taken for medical treatment, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. An attorney with the Equal Justice Initiative said he had been stabbed before, had been afraid to report it, and that the prison system failed to protect him. Another man held at the prison was charged in his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody (neglect alleged). The Alabama Department of Corrections says another inmate stabbed him during a fight in a housing unit, and an Equal Justice Initiative attorney says he had been stabbed before, feared reporting it, and that the prison system failed to protect people like him.
Reported by: Alabama Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Equal Justice Initiative attorney (advocates).
News reports (5)
- Alabama inmate fatally stabbed at Bullock County prison
- Inmate fatally stabbed at Bullock Co. Correctional Facility
- Inmate Stabbed to Death at Prison in Bullock County
- Convicted murderer dies after stabbing at Bullock Co. Correctional Facility
- Inmate convicted of murder stabbed to death at Ala. state prison